A mother
returns to the island where her son disappeared.
Spain is
becoming synonymous with good quality horror and “Hierro” doesn’t disappoint the
trend.
This is not
a scary movie per se, this is more an “atmosphere” movie, a psychological thriller.
There are not a lot of scare or gory moments but in their place we get an
interesting story, with an actual plot and a mystery that we actually want to
solve.
Where the
mood is king the various characters are very thin. The grieving mother is an
horror staple while the various hostile people of the island are more part of
the general background than true people. Indeed it would have greatly
beneficiated from some subplot and a change of pace every now and then, as it
is it’s a study of grieving and pain 90 minutes long.
Recommended
for fans of the genre.
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